The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-15

vote. AS stated before, with full I
vote, three or four thousand Demo. s
Gratis can elect Bartlett. There is re- {
ported to be more than the usual I
among the rank and file s
of the Independents, and the most
encouraging sign is the interest that
the workingmen all over the city dis
play in the interest of the Bartlett
and Brooks ticket. Apathy and
fraud are the only dangers the re-
formers fear. Evidence is multiply
ing that the business men. as well as
the mechanics and the laboring men,
are aroused. The occasion is regard
ed as sufficiently important to inter-
est all classes in the community.
Though not able to take part in the
campaign, ex-Congressmau Findlay
is as enthusiastic in favor Of reform
as he was last year and the year be-
fore. He has nothing to take back,
and nothing to regret in his course
against the ring Democracy. Mr.. |
Finday said Yesterday that he knew
two weeks before the congressional
election last year, that for him to win
was hopeless, but he told his friends
that he would run, nevertheless, as
he believed he would be rendering
the people of Baltimore nobler SER
vice by being defeated and sending
some of the rascally election officers
to Jail, than by being elected. He
knew the plan of the enemy, and
now has the satisfaction of knowing
that his candidacy was the means of
revealing to the people the methods
of some of the bosses and their fol-
lowers. and the imprisonment of cleo
ton officers for ballot-box stuffing.
Frequently man may render great
survice by running against fearful
odds.
In regard to the present campaign,
Mr.. Findlay said that he could not
take an active part in the campaign,
as his physician had assured him
that the excitement and exposure of
public speaking were more than he
could stand in his present state of
health. He regretted this. as he had
been one of those who had urged Mr..
| Bartl EFT to accept the nomination for
mayor, and rejoiced over the nomi.
nation of Mr.. Brooks, and all his
sympathies and convictions were
with the Independent Democrats in
the present struggle. There was but
one issue involved in his opinion, and
that was legal registration and fair
elections. Both parties promised this,
but by the appointment of purely
partisan board of supervisors, and by
the efforts of the registers to conceal
their work and obstruct legal regis
tration, both in their acts of omission
and commission, that they did not
intend to keep their promise. The
Republicans, on the other hand, both
by the pledges of their platform and
the non partisan character of the cam
didates which they have put in nom
ination for the chief executive off,
GERS of both the city and state, have
given real earnest Of the sincerity of
their intentions. The Democratic
ring has been promising reforms in
our election system ever since 1865
and yet, with all the power of the
state under their control, have failed
to give any relief. "Shall they be
trusted again to do what they have
so persistently refused to do during
all these years of power; and, if so,
what is the basis of this trust' can
see none. The ring has lived on
fraud, and why it should destroy its
only means of living passes my COM
prehension. The objection is some
times made that change will only
be from the Democratic frying-pan
into the Republican fire. If | thought
this, and that the machine politicians
of the Republican ring would run the
administration of either Mr.. Brooks
or Mr.. Bartlett, l would lend no
hand towards lifting them into
power. l would as soon live under
, one ring as the other. But 1 see nc
danger of this.
The Republican candidates are un-
der no obligation to the machine in
their own party, If elected, they
, will owe their election to the law
abiding citizens in both parties, who
have determined to ignore all purely
party considerations until our city is
rid of the gang that infests and dis
graces it. There is no place and nc
use for parties in Maryland until the
ballot-box is placed beyond the reach
, of thieves. 1t is said that our city is
: losing prestige and standing by the
: discussions now going on. Have
New York, Philadelphia, Chicago OF
Cincinnati lost anything by the ex-